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The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1887-02-02
Santa Barbara.

1t may seem improbable at first that
a resort anywhere in the world can be
warm in winter and not hot in sum-
mer. Judging from its location, Santa
Barbara might naturally be considered
as lying within the uncomfortable hot
zone. But let one familiarize himself
with the natural surroundings of the
place, and he will see at once why the
climate is so nearly uniform through
out the year. The town faces upon
the ocean and is free to all the refresh
ing breezes that in July and August
blow from off that watery waste. There
is never day in summer when a cool
wind does not come inland from the
sea. Then again the valley is sepa-
rated from the hot regions of the inte-
ror of the state by high chain of
mountains that breaks the force of the
hot currents from the San Joaquin and
the Mojave desert. The sun is fiercer
in July than it is in December, but
veranda is invariably cool and the
nights are delightful. The chief amuse-
ment at midday in summer is bathing.
There is no better beach in the world
than at Santa Barbara, and from eleven
O'Clock until nearly one the shore is
covered with bathers and lookers-on.
Coming from Saratoga, there was
something vastly stimulating and en-
joyable in taking daily swim out be-
You'd the breakers; and one was ALWAYS
sure of having a companion who
thought nothing of taking course
around the half-mile-long wharf, woman
though she were. a girl who cannot
swim soon bemoans her fate at Santa
Barbara. The accomplishment is nee
essary, or almost so. Riding is habit
that is universal. The climate and
country both command active, out-of-
door exercise, and on horseback one is
able to 90 everywhere. And freedom
in the choice of routes means much.
1t is not in following the beaten paths
that one gains the greatest enjoyment.
1t is rather in going to the isolated
hooks and corners, the number of which
at Santa Barbara is legion. There are
the mountain byways, the narrow trails
leading far into the winding canyons of
the range, and, better than all, there are
the canters along the shore, over the long
hard beach that extends for miles be-
side the breaking waves. The week
that was ours was passed in making eX-
cursions to every familiar spot which
we had learned to admire during win
ter's residence, and although the high
roads were white with dust, which
floated after us like a cloud, and the
fields were brown and the wild flowers
had disappeared, the old familiar places
were as beautiful as ever, and it was
with almost painful pressure on the
heart that we rode off one night and
took passage on the south-bound
steamer. Many weeks would pass, we
knew, before we could see Santa Bar
bara again, and in some way the little,
plain, unadorned town has a way of
attaching itself to ones affections so
strongly that it is never parted from
except with deep regret. As we stood
on the deck of the boat and watched
the red light on the wharf gradually
fade away, all pleasures Of anticipation
were drowned by the consciousness
that we were leaving behind us one of
the most picturesque places in all the
wide West. California Letter.
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Finish What You Begin,

My old great-grandmother Knox had
way of making her children finish
their work. If they began a thing they
must complete it. If they undertook
to build Clubhouse they must not
leave it until it was done, and nothing
OF the work or play to which they set
their hands would she allow them to
abandon incomplete. sometimes wish
l had been trained in this way. How
much of life is wasted in unfinished
work. Many man uses up his time
in splendid beginnings, The labor de-
voted to commence ten things and
leave them useless would finish five of
them and make them profitable and
useful. Finish your work. Life is
brief; time is short. Stop beginning
forty things and go back and finish
four Put patient, persistent toll into
the matter, and be assured one COM
plete undertaking will yield Yourself
more pleasure and the world more
profit than dozen fair plans of which
people say, This man began to build
and was not able to finish. "-ChriStian
ObSerrer.
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York city. Walker had served the
Union in the innocuous position of as
sistant paymaster. One dark day while
Mr.. Walker was sitting in his office
bordering how long he would be COM
PEELED to " loaf" on account of the in
ability of Uncle Sam to pay his boys in
blue, a private soldier walked in and
confronted him. The soldier belonged
TO a Connecticut regiment. Imagine
the paymaster's surprise when the fol-
lowing conundrum was put to him by
the soldier: " Say, when do you expect
to pay us men, anyway? We haven't
had cent now in three months"
The assistant paymaster glared at his
visitor and told him, neither politely
nor religiously, that it was none of his
business. This was far from satisfac-
tory, and the soldier proceeded: "But
it is my business, and that is why am
here. The men are not treated with
the slightest justice, and if the United
States amt able TO pay them, why you
can have a draft on New York bank
for the amount due my regiment" OF
course there was no alternative left to
Colonel Walker but to regard the Con-
necticut private as crank. 1t re-
manned only to be sure just how dan
gerous crank he was. 50 You'd better
get back to you camp at once" said
the paymaster. "Who gave you per-
mission to come here, anyway? Come,
now, get out, or l will call the guard
and have you placed under arrest.
Gitl" Suiting the action to the word,
the doughty paymaster arose and pro-
ceeded to Z" fire p" the private. Hold
on minute; take your hands off! l
tell you mean what ! say. l belong
to the til Connecticut, and l can af-
ford to pay my regiment if there's no
objection. Something ought to be done,
and Pm willing to advance the money.
My name is Elias Howell" This gave
an entirely new aspect to the case, and
Paymaster Walker grew quite deferen-
tial. The man who stood before him
was the famous inventor of the sewing
machine. He could pay his regiment
all their back pay; he had the will, and
he had the money, too. Colonel Walker
thought an apology was demanded.
The apology was given and Elias re-
ceived it with the air of man who had
but little to forgive. Well, colonel"
said he, when this trouble is over !
want you to step down to New York
sometime and see me-" The " colonel"
lived then in Vermont, and when the
war was closed he managed to find him
self in New York. He had started
law office; that is to say, he helped to
occupy the office of few friends of his.
Business was not specially active. One
day Walker thought he would step in
and see whether Elias Howe recalled
the misadventure of the war. Two
years had then elapsed. Elias Howe
was there and his memory was good
They sat down together and talked.
Howe was from Massachusetts, Walker
from Vermont. The Howe Machine
Company had just been organized.
Walker was appointed its attorney.
With an office in every city, town and
hamlet in the civilized world, no wonder
the Howe Machine Company was the
foundation of Walkers fortune.-St.
Paul Dispatch.
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sion no less potent and mischievous;
but either the forms are never sub
imitted to, or, if complied with, though
broken in spirit, allowed to keep their
place as dead forms. But comparisons
here are of little practical value. Our
light aggravates our guilt. We need
to fear the Lord and work righteousness.
In vain do we assent to the commands
that shields our neighbours wife from
our covetousness if there be not in our
hearts that love of Christ which finds
its true and fit expression in the keep
ing of the Commandments DR.. John
Han
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Lees Surrender.

The number of men surrendered at
AppOmattoX was much smaller than
generally supposed. The records of
the war department are as follows
Lee and staff, fifteen men; various de-
tachments, 2S7; artillery, 2,5S6; cavalry,
,7S6; Ewell's corps, $40: Gordon's
corps, 200: Longstreet's corps, IA 1888.
Total, 2S,356 men. The morning of the
attack on Fort Steadman reports showed
that Lees army mustered about $1,000
men. During the campaign following
lasting sixteen days, he lost on an
average 1000 men daily. 1t is sup
posed that many deserted when the line
of march took them in the neighborhood
of their homes. We were afterwards
informed that they knew the end was
near, and the men, being discouraged,
hungry and foot-sore, would throw
away their guns to tighten their load.
Many others intended to leave when
they got a little farther south We
were also Informed by a confederate
sergeant that the subordinate officers
told the men to look out for them
selves-to stay or go, as they pleased
Such was the paralyzed condition of the
confederate army at the closing events
of the war. On the other hand, the
Union army was in excellent spirits,
considering the severity of the cam
paign. We realized that Richmond and
Petersburg were evacuated by Lees
army and that our hard marching was
made to cut off Lees communications
south, little thinking that victory was
so near. Those who were at the front
will never forget the receiving of the
news. The Second Corps had been
going at double-quck nearly all night,
trying to keep within hailing distance
OF Sherldan's active cavalry-men On,
on, through sand ankle-deep and cross
ing brooks knee-deep, which was kept
up until way in the morning, when we
suddenly came to stand-still and eX-
pected to turn to the left into line of
battle, but instead, after holding the
road for an hour or more, were en-
massed into an open field on the left
and informed we could make coffee, an
opportunity we hadn't had during that
campaign of sixteen days. In few
moments the smoke from hundreds of
fires assembled, filling the air. We were
of the opinion that the Johnnies had
given us the slip, and while conversing
on all that had occurred there came a
cheer from the right of the line that
caused many of us to lose our coffee in
the confusion. We all jumped up and
got to the road just in time to see
General Meade and staff pass, who in
formed us that Lee had surrendered
The excitement that followed was in
describable. The air was black with
hats; some took their guns from the
stacks and fired them in the air. The
roar of artillery doomed. The bands
took it up and played, and excitement
prevailed everywhere. Thus it was
that we celebrated at the front the
surrender of Lee.-Erchange.
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Select M(tstelIanp.
Would We Return 4!


Would we return
If once the gates which close upon the past
Were opened wide for us and If the dear
Remembered pathway stretched before us clear
To lead us back to youths lest land at last
Whereon lfe's April shadows, lightly cast,
Recalled the old sweet days of childish fear
with all their faded hopes and brought anear
The far-on streams In which skies were gassed
Did these lost dreams which wake the souls sad
yearning
But live once more and waited our returning
Would we return
Would we return
III loves enchantment held the heart 10 more
Ana we had come to count the wild sweet pain,
The fond distress, the lavish tears but vain;
Had cooled the hearts hot wounds amidst the roar
or mountain gales or, on some alien shore,
Worn out the souls long anguish and had 81 Tin
AT last the dragon of despair-if then the train
or vanished years came back, and as of yore,
The same voice called, and with soft eyes beguiling
Our lost love beckoned through times gray veil
smiling,
Would we return?
Would return
Once we had crossed to deaths unlovely land
And trod the bloomless ways among the dead
Lone and unhappy; after years had fled
with twilight wings along the glimmering strand
If then-an angel came with outstretched hand
To lead us back, and recalled i'm dread
How soon the tears that once for us are shed
May flow for others-how like words in sand
Onr memory fades away-how oft our waking
Might vex the living with the dead hearts breaking
Would return
Would we return?
-4MdUipter century.
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advertisements.
A CHILD'SSKIN
Ears and Scalp, Covered with
Eczematous Scabs and
Sores, Cured by
Cuticura.

M little son, aged eight years. has been afflicted
WI with Eczema of the scalp and Mt times n great
poruoh OF the body ever since he two years old
began In his ears and extended to his scalp which
became covered with scabs and sores, and from
winch sticky fluid poured out causing intense itch
ing ana distress and leaving his hair matted and life
less Underneath these scabs the skin was raw like
piece OF beefsteak. Gradually the hair came out
ana was destroyed until but small patch was left
at the back of the head. My friends in Peabody
KNOW now my little boy has suffered. At night he
would scratch his head until his pillow was covered
WIN blood used to tie his hands behind him and
III many ways tried to prevent his scratching; but II
was no use, he would scratch. took him to the hos
ptal and to the best physicians in Peabody without
success. About this time friends who had
Deen cured by the CuT1CuRA REMEDIES prevailed
upon me to try them. began to use them on the
llth OF january last. In seven months every partI.
cue OF the disease was removed Not a spot or scab
remains on his scalp to tell the story of his suffering
MS mar has returned, and is thick and strong and
ms scalp as sweet and clean any child's In the
word cannot say enough to express my gratitude
LOT this wonderful cure by the CUTICuRA REM.
EDlEs, and wish all similarly afflicted to know that
my statement is true and without exaggeration.
~. , CHARLES MCKAY,
oc'' o. looo' Peabody, Mass
have seen Mr.. McKay's boy when badly affected
with the Eczema. He was pitiful sight to look at
know that he has tried our best physicians and did
all father could do for suffering child but awaited
nothing. | know that the statements he has made
you as regards the curing of his boy by your CUTI-
CuRA REMEDIES are true in every particular.
WILLIAM j. MCCARTHY
SO Foster ST., Peabody Mass.
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Pensions Granted.

To Horace B. Briggs, Mortified, an
increase from 81 to S4 month and
S130 arrears; A. p. Cameron, Worces-
ter, an increase from SIG to $24 a
month; William Dryer, Sheffield, S4 a
month and $685. arrears; Ann Marsh
Island Pond, widow of Dwight Marsh,
soldier of the war of 1912, S12 a
month and about $50 arrears; James
Rouhan, East Orange, an increase from
SIG to S24 month; James Somerville,
North Fayston, an increase from So to
sea month and 1928 arrears; Ezekiel
Skinner, Plainfeld, an increase from
S4 to Sc a month and 1854 arrears
Abbie Chaplin, Groton, Sl4 month
and $50 arrears.
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Soloiers' &uooet.
A Story of fredericksburg.

II was after the battle of fredericksburg;
Inc ground was strewn with the fallen foe.
Ihey lay In ranks on the side of the hill
with their front to U.S. and boy could throw
stone to the nearest rank, so close
Had they pushed their way to the frowning edge
OF our rfe-pits in the last mad charge,
When they struck our lines like an angry sledge
And fought up under the very guns
TIL the blue line wavered and turned, and broke,
And the stragglers sulleny disappeared
Behind the mantle of plying smoke.
There was one tall man in the nearest rank
So tall he had lowered above the rest
As we watched him bearing the tattered flag.
He lay with rihcball through his breast.
We thought him dead, but he turned at last
And raised himself on his elbow there
And looked down over the bloody field,
Then back at us in fierce despair.
We saw him tumble beneath his coat.
And feebly draw with a shaking hand
little package OF letters, stained
With and tied with faded band.
He spread them out, and he picked up one,
The smallest letter of all the store.
We knew that his eyes were filed with tears
That blotted the tiny packet DER.
He tried to read, but his head dropped low
On his breast, and his hand fell nerveessly;
But the stiifening fingers still kept their grasp
On the words that his eyes could no longer see
murmur ran through the rife-pits;
We had watched him there from our sheltered stand
We fell to wondering whose hand had traced
The letter he held in his big brown hand.
His wife said one. No, his sweetheart, boys 90
Said another. " His motherl" said one whose face
Was fresh and fair as a girls; he dropped
His gun and clambered from out the place.
He ran to the dead mans side and raised
mi 1T
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1887-02-02
Social Life in Early New England.

The grade in social life, which was
largely name, was shown most in the
Westinghouse. The seating of fam
lilies and the assigning of pews was one
of the difficult things. The minister
and deacon were nearest the pulpit.
The boys and colored people were as
signed the back pews or those in the
gallery. This idea of " social dignity"
was brought from the old country, but
gave way in the growing oneness of
life in America. The days of the early
New Highlander were not all dark.
There was much of the austere in
them, but there was also a grain of
mirth and cheerfulness. We must
bear in mind that the clergymen were
the early historians of the country: and
they put much gloom in their writings.
The New England inn was place of
great resort. In the poverty Of news
papers, people came here to gain what
news there might be. The innholder
was leading man in the community.
lie got the news from the driver and
the passengers of the stage-coach, and
OF the travellers who CHANGED to be
passing through the town. The inn
holder knew the public men of the
country, for they had partaken of his
sumptuous dinners and had lodged at
his inn. If the walls of these ancient
New England taverns could talk, what
stories would they tell-not of the de-
bauches alone, but of the dark and STIR
ring days of patriotic and loyal senti-
ments and deeds whose influence went
out for the founding of the nation and the
of the blessings of freedom.
lie who strives to know of early New
England must not look alone to the
learning, character and influence of its
but also to the manners, life
and influence of the innholders. -Ne,o
England Magazine
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HALLS CATARRH CURE.
S1OO---Reward---S10O.

The readers of the WATCHMAN will
be pleased to learn that there is at
least one dreaded disease that science
has been able to cure in all its stages,
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Catarrh, being a constitutional dis
ease, requires a constitutional treat
ment. HALLS Catarrh Cure is taken
internally, acting directly upon the
blood and mucus surfaces of the sys-
tenn, thereby destroying the foundation
of the disease and giving the patient
strength by building up the constitu-
ton and assisting nature in doing its
work. The proprietors have so much
faith in its curative powers that they
offer one hundred dollars for any case
1t fails to cure. Send for list of testi-
monials. Address
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Toledo, Ohio.
@ Sold by druggists at seventy-fve
cents.
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A oNE-ARMED boy in Augusta saved
four persons from drowning, but DR..
Bulbs Cough Syrup has saved its thou
sands from consumption.
THE use of highly seasoned animal
food and alcoholic drinks are the pre-
disposing causes of govt. When aware
of its presence lose no time in pro-
curing Salvation Oil. 1t kills pain.
Twenty-Five cents.
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A Word About Catarrh.

1t is the mucous membrane, that wonderful semi
fluid envelope surrounding the delicate tissues of the
air and food passages, that Catarrh makes its strong
hold Once established 1t eats into the very vitals
and renders life but long drawn breath of misery
and disease, dung the sense of hearing trammel-
ing the power of speech, destroying the faculty of
smell, taintins the breath and killing the refined
pleasures of taste. Insdiously, by creeping on from
simple cold in the head it assaults the membranous
lining and envelops the bones, eating through the
delicate coats and causing Inflammation, sloughing
and death. Nothing short of total eradication will
secure health to the patient and all alternatives are
simply procrastnated sufferings leading to IA fatal
termination. SANFoRD's RADICAL CURE, by M
mutation and by Internal administration has never
failed; even when the disease has made frightfu in.
roads on delicate constitutions hearing, smell and
taste have been recovered and the disease thor
oughy driven out"
SANFoRD's RADICAL CURE consists of one bottle
of the RADICAL CURE. one box CATARRHAL SoLv-
ENr and one IMPROVED INHALER, neatly wrapped
in one package, with full directions. Price sl.OO
POTTER DRUG AND CHEMICAL Co., Boston.
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THE combination, proportion and
process in preparing Hoods Sarsapa-
rilla are peculiar to this medicine aud
unknown to others.
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ALTHOUGH very fashionable as an
article of dress, the hustle is really
back number.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1887-02-02

THAT which is sold from the farm is
gone forever; that fed on the farm re-
mains as good manure.
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The Colonel and the Soldier.

Colonel Stephen A. Walker is now
United States district attorney at New
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DO not know of any instance In which the CUTI.
CIhA REMEDIES have failed to produce satisfactory
any other skin remedies have ever handled during
the thirtythree years of my experience as druggist
A. ID. TRYON,
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Sold everywhere. Price: CuTrCuRA fifty cents.
CUTlCURA SOAP, twenty-five cents; CUTICiRA RE,
SOLVENT, sl0O' Prepared by the POTTER DRUG
AND CHEMICAL Co., Boston.
send for " How to Cure Skin Diseases"
DlMPLES Blackheads Skin Blemisbes and Iabv
IIu Hum0rs. Use CuTICuRA soar.
Los Angeles daily herald., 1887-04-20
HOTEL ARRIVALS YESTERDAY
TUESDAY. April 10, 1897.
CONyEYANCES

GRAND CENTRAL-H G Drave ana fimily,
Wichita, Kas.; K G Schuetz, st Louis; Will
lam Saunderson, Spring neld, Ills; I'll G
wesierbrook, San LUIS obispo: J A MerIick,
Cotton; b Juan, San Juan; + E Pollard,
Center; Welis, Azusa; W w Plum, w c
Anderson, Roland Reed Company: s NJ
Young, Santa Ana: II Baker, San Fer
nandO; ri II McNanghtou, Berry, Santa
land; Mills. New York; II B Mandupuse
Winfield. Kss; John Kavanauch, Texas; W
Van Slyke, San Bernardino: Joe Beed,
Phoenix, A T; s Little, N A Eaton. M
Anderson, San Diego John Green, Mescall
PIco house w ERanlin, Topeka, Kan: r
w won0erlich, OAKLAND; Geo. Upenshan.'
Fan Francisco; NJ CIIames, Haywarrs; J W
Keen, Philadelphia; J NJ Foy, Pa>sden-; f
q g 'fgSins, donolula: w b Dougherty
Santa Paula; Y Burbank, New York; G
Frauenhon, vile and ch ldreo, Joliet, Ills;
Leon Lazarus, St. Helena Geo. Holiday.
city; l. Garuseu, Santa Ana; Mrs. Geo IA
Mitchell, Pomona Mrs w z Oakes, Pomona;
W Ellsworth. city: H w Walker. Azusa;
John Frtnklin, Riverside;W Fl Holbird.
Ciaremont; W + Thompson, city Baker,
Cinciuna'ti; + Adams Chicago; w A Good.
ing san Francisco; 4 e Chilson, Anaheim
W Chilson, Araheim; J A Tozer and wife,
River Falls, Wis.
ST. ELMO HoTEL-W Lithgon, wife and
child, W Lions, NJ Spencer w Thomp-
s0n aud vie Jackson, K f Gray w
Bateman. II London, Mrs II M III ingston,
MISS Livingston, J Bassett and wife, San
Diego; Hus-my, I Hussmy. n r Row
land q Hoyt, National City; X Cress. |
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Mrs q r Lyndall, K Steinbeck, Mrs E b
Phiilirs ontario; Mrs w Ii Plumm, Miss L /
Cuff. I II I.orp and wife, Del Mar; Dr. H Pl
HugMs aud wife. Esyeuns. o; AT Fcarpen,
HWsiksr, s n Francisco: W Fl Poytcrif. Eli.
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